demos & tools

MrTaggy
a social tag-based search tool for efficiently exploring topics on the web without the noise

"MrTaggy" is a prototype search engine and recommendation engine for exploring topics quickly and efficiently on the web. By using social tags that people add to webpages (for example, while using social bookmarking services), and applying a unique PARC algorithm that reduces the noise (for example, variations on tag phrasing) while increasing relevance, MrTaggy delivers the user more relevant results. MrTaggy also implements a novel user interface to explore the tag space.  

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Ethnography in Industry: Methods for distributed & large data sets (part two)
posted 19 August 2010

We believe that virtual worlds and similar Web 2.0 spaces hint at an emerging mixed or "hybrid" ethnographic methodology that depends on agile collaborations between quantitative researchers, qualitative researchers, and software engineers

Want to be retweeted? Add URLs to your tweets!
posted 16 August 2010

In a previous post, I described a recent study in which we found that including hashtags in a tweet enhances the retweetability of the tweet

Design principles for news abundance
posted 6 August 2010

Google's Eric Schmidt recently observed that the Internet is disruptive because it replaces information scarcity with information abundance